Eduardo Navas

In this interview Norient asked Eduardo Navas, one of the main scholars theorizing the phenomenon of remix, to clarify some of his points and to talk about algorithms, the surplus of remix studies, and cultural appropriation.

Sampling technology compresses the labor of producing in the studio. In the last part of his essay, Eduardo Navas explains how sampling puts the focus on selectivity as the crucial factor in the relation of labor and creativity.

Nothing is original, just unique to the moment in which it is experienced. In the third part of his essay, Eduardo Navas analyzes Adornos book Minima Moralia and shows that even his idiosyncratic writing is built from samples.

In the second chapter of his essay, Regenerative Speech, Eduardo Navas claims that every language is a remix. As phonemes and words are not property that belongs to a specific person they function as basic building blocks for communication.

Just like words to create sentences, songs and artworks have become building blocks for new ones. In his essay, Eduardo Navas proposes a future in which constant updates and connectivity will become ubiquitous.